changing SynchronousLevel

[janrif]

Kinook, on my w2k-sp4 machine, I made the register change mentioned in the 3.2 notes 7 it appeared to me that copying websites slowed down. I'm wondering if this has to do w w2k vs xp os. Do you have any test results on this?

[kinook]

I don't think there's any way that lowering the synchronous level could slow down database update times. I didn't notice a measurable difference in the time to import a web page with different SynchronousLevel settings on W2K or XP. Any database access time will typically be dwarfed by the time to retrieve the web page, its icon, and other files it references.

[janrif]

Originally posted by kinook
I don't think there's any way that lowering the synchronous level could slow down database update times. I didn't notice a measurable difference in the time to import a web page with different SynchronousLevel settings on W2K or XP. Any database access time will typically be dwarfed by the time to retrieve the web page, its icon, and other files it references.

OK, then I misunderstood the new feature note: "Options to increase import/update performance [/snip] "

Instead what should I expect by changing the sync registry setting? Is that just for syncing w Outlook or a folder?

[kinook]

Functionality that is database-update intensive will be faster (for instance, permanently deleting or copying thousands of items, importing a very large CSV or XML file, etc.).